PUMPED UP . . . OVER THE . . . PRICE OF . . . GASOLINE

Charles W. CushingCHICAGO TRIBUNE

I drive a lot and don't like high gasoline prices more than anyone else, but repealing the 4.3 cents-a-gallon increase in the gas tax is folly. This is one of the few ways that the tremendous underground economy--the illegals, the drug dealers, the ostensibly unemployed who pay no tax--is taxed.